Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-08
ON 1NFHLLIGE c1CER. SATURDAY. JANUARY 8. 1887.
personalities.

President Cleveland was married June 2,
1885.
Mir. j. W. Welch. of Greenton, Is visiting
friends al Chapel Hill.
Col. and Mrs. Jno. Reid will leave. next
"Wednesday, tor Florida.
Mr.. Geo. NJ. Mountjoy returned from Ne
braska last Wednesday.
Mr.. Hay Heathman was at Medicine Lodge,
recently, looking at the country.
Mrs. J. S. Price, Of Upton, is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Hook, near Odessa.
The president stood for nearly three hours
receiving visitors on New Years day.
Miss Ethel Arnold, OF Butler, is visiting
relatives and friends in Clay township.
Judge VIM. Young was at Medicine Lodge,
Kansas, q few days ago, on legal business.
MIR. G. a. Frerking, of Corder, was in the
city Tuesday and called on the Intelllgencer.
Mrs. Richard Halnline. of Eldorado
Springs, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. VIM.
Lale.
Judge VIM. T.. Wood was confined to his
room by indisposition for several days re-
Gently.
Mrs. 10. H. Christy, of Clay township,
who has been quite sick for some time, is
better.
Messrs. D. G. jackson, Geo. A. AlbIn and
NJ. ". AIbin called On the Intelliyencer, last
Tuesday.
MIR. I. NJ. Hackett, a former citizen OF Lex
ington. now of Kansas City, was here a Jew
days ago.
Marshal Owen has been at Wyandotte, this
week, In attendance on the trial of the alleged
train wreckers.
MIR. Jesse Hargrave, of Higsinsville. was in
the city, yesterday, and paid the Intelligen-
Ger q pleasant visit.
Prot. and Mrs. Demand returned, last
Saturday, from spending his holidays al
Pilot Grove and SedaIia.
Miss Belle Edmonds. who has been visiting
friends in Clay township for the past two
weeks, has returned home.
Rev. T. n. Post, D.. D., the father of Con-
gregationslism in Missouri, died at his home
in st. Loui a few days ago.
Miss Bette Mounijoy returned, Monday
night, from a two months visit 10 relatives
and friends in Parsons, Kansas.
Mr.. W. B. Neil has accepted q position as
travelling salesman for the kan>a, CitI
Tobacco Manufacturing Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Benton, of Kansas
City, spent the past week with friends and
relatives of the former in this county.
Mr.. R. q. Smith, who was In town, Thurs
day. says some of his neighbors are driving
their stock two and a half miles to water.
Mr.. Fontaine Duvall, and his sister. Miss
Marion, who have been visiting friends in
Independence. returned home last Monday.
The following named members of congress
died in 1ss6:-Cole of Maryland; Price, OF
Wisconsin; Beach, Arnot and Dowdney. of
New York.
The marriage of Miss Mary Sherman to
Mr.. Burchsrd Austin Hayes, son of x-Pres-
ident Hayes, was celebrated at Norwalk,
Ohio, December 80.
Hon. X. A. Hicklin left for Jefferson City
to begin his legislative duties, last Monday.
BE may be depended on to be attentive. and
fai, HAL to his constituents.
Mrs. Susan E. Ustick Is visiting her laugh
ter, Mrs. w. T. Eastwood, in wellington.
She will probably visit Lexington snd Dover.
to see her friends, before leaving the county
again.
John S. Newberry, the Michigan capitalist
and ex-congressman died at his home 10 De
troIt, Sunday last. He leaves a widow. three
sons and a daughter. His estate is valued at
8 1000, 900.
Washington gossips are all agog with the
approaching marriage of Congressman GLOW.
er and Miss Patten the daughter Of a wealthy
Washington widow, estimated to be worth
several millions.
Somerviile journal: one way to
stop the high hat nuisance at the theaters.
It's to make the women sit at one side of the
house and the men on the other, as they do
at Quaker meetings."
Luther W. Marshall. who has been at
tending the st. Louis College of Pharmacy,
during the WINTER, came up % spend the hol-
idays with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. L.
Marshall, near town. He left last Sunday |
evening for st. Louis.
Rt. Rev. Horatio Potter, Protestant Epis. |
copal Bishop of New York, died at his home, |
last Sunday morning. He was born in New |
York February 9, 1902, and belonged to a |
noted family Of theologians.
New York Herald, Jan. 1:-''Mrs. Cleve- |
land has held the enviable position OF the |
first lady in the land only q few months. |
During that time she has won the hearts of
the whole American people by the simplicity
and dignity Of her bearing. The Herald
wishes Mrs. Cleveland a very happy New
Year"
Kansas City Journal:-'The fact that the
president was able TO stand the fatigue of d
public reception or New Years day should
be sufficient answer to the mysterious hints
that his illness has been Of a very serious
character" Yes; and fortunately, no an
swer is necessary to the mean little SANDER
published by some newspapers as to the
cause Of the presidents illness.
Mr.. Milton Tootle, of St. Joseph, a million
atre merchant, who was interested in mer-
camille houses in that place and In Kansas
City, died at his residence in St. Joseph. last
Sunday afternoon. He was a native of Ohio,
aged 81 years, and leaves a wife and three
children. He had been for eleven years q
member of the Presbyterian church. His
wealth is estimated at $500. 900.
The Jefferson City Tribune In its list of
biographies of members of the legislature
gives this:-'.Robert A. Hicklin, Lexington,
airy Is. 1859; educated in schools of Lexing-
ton and at Missouri State University; adj
United to the bar in April, 1873: city attor-
IL VI ACAibStOu I"o tCIuiS, appointed puD- |
lie administrator to fill vacancy, October 10,
1881; lawyer. Married.
The editor of the Washington Capital
says:--"1 am glad to hear that ex-senator
Henderson, of Missouri, and his wife, both of
whom are so we'll known In Washington, are
coming here to live. Senator Henderson is
now a millionaire, having realized a very
large fortune from bis investments in Missou.
ri. His wife. who Is the daughter of Senator
r9ote. OF Fermont, spent most Of her life In
washington and prefers this city to any place
IN the country as q residence. They have
purchased, I understand, nearly 800 900
worth OF land at the head Of Sixteenth street
and Will erect q handsome residence there
Gen. W. w. Loring died In New York
City, Thursday. Dec. 30. he was born III
Wilmington, n. c., in 1877. He ran AWAY
from school when Il boy and enlisted in the
United States army he lost his left arm al
Chepultapec; be was Il maior-general in The
army; in 1865 he entered the
service of the E,hediye Of Egypt, and served :
with distinction he returned to this country
In 1878, and has since lived principally ha,
tween New York and Florida, TIE latte,
state holding An atfectionate place in hi.
up to the close OF hi, life, Sinne 9
bis return be has followed literary pursuits
chleny, and puoiiShed Il work entitled the
Confederate Soldier IN Egypt" which is :
history of his own lie there, and he W. :
busily engaged preparing another one which !
he intended calling Fifty Years & Soldier
The list Of distinguished dead for 1855 ia
long one. 1t includes The names OF Samuel
j. Tilden, who died Auguat 4; Chester A !